Louis Hebert

Louis Hébert graduated from West Point in 1845, resigned a year later to manage his father's plantation, then became Louisiana's chief engineer from 1855 to 1860. He fought for the Confederacy, a government founded to protect slavery, as colonel and brigadier general: Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, where he was wounded and captured, Iuka, Vicksburg and the heavy artillery at Fort Fisher. After the war he edited a newspaper, the Iberville South, and taught school. In October 2002, with help from the Sons of Confederate Veterans, his remains were moved to St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Cecilia.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 7.8 mi
  A state welcome center inside the Atchafalaya Basin, the nation's largest river swamp, with exhibits on Basin history and life, a film, a crawfishing boat and French-speaking staff.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 9.8 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Vermilionville — 12 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 14 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.

More markers nearby

• Stephanie-Martin Duralde House — 1.9 mi
• Poché's — 3.5 mi
• Atchafalaya Floodway — 4.3 mi
• The Valery Thibodeaux House — 5.0 mi